Response of Smallmouth Bass to Sustained Removals of Northern Pikeminnow in the Lower Columbia and Snake Rivers

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1020-1035

  Ward, David L ^a   Zimmerman, Mark P ^a  

^a OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH BIOLOGY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; RESPONSE ANALYSIS;

COLUMBIA RIVER; SNAKE RIVER; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON;

ANIMALIA; MICROPTERUS DOLOMIEU; ONCORHYNCHUS; PERCIFORMES; PTYCHOCHEILUS OREGONENSIS; PTYCHOCHEITUS; PTYCHOCHEITUS OREGONENSIS; SALMONIDAE; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033374106     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1999)128<1020:ROSBTS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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